Experience

Pineapple AF

• United States
• Mental Health Care
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Founder, Product Engineer, Event Producer

  • Nov 2020 - Present

  Founded, built, & shipped a social video app for web & iOS that facilitates deeper human connection. Pivoted to mental health community events in the big pineapple, NYC. 🍍🗽 Started Pineapple AF in mid-2020 by going with a pineapple brother on a pineapple pilgrimage to Hawai'i. Jared helped fulfill his friend's dream to do a restaurant pop-up by producing a series of pineapple-in-your-mouth events in NYC & LA from Nov 2020 thru Feb 2021. Sold tickets & made money. Had an absurdly awesome time bringing people together & hosting in a pineapple onesie. Then the pandemic hit. 🍍 Transformed that ridiculous community spirit into a remote-friendly, Covid-safe experience by building an anti-social-media app called Pineapple, to get humans face-to-face seeing, hearing, & feeling each other as real people, by facilitating authentic selfie-video conversations async in small groups. Built & released the Pineapple web app throughout 2021. Finished a working iOS prototype by end of December 2021. Raised money from angel investors in Jan 2022. 🍍 Released Pineapple for iOS in the Apple App Store on June 27, 2022, on International Pineapple Day #2. Got 1mm views on Instagram in Summer 2022 wearing a pineapple onesie & doing street interviews in NYC, creating async convos between strangers asking & answering deep questions. Forged a funnel from social media into Pineapple. Learned that building for & marketing to everyone, would be an uphill mountain. Needed real community at the base of the app. Many things didn't work & fell apart. In Nov 2022, Jared took a step back to re-evaluate. Went through a personal transformation. 🍍 Re-envisioned Pineapple AF as a mental health company in Jan 2023 with the pandemic lifting. In Apr 2023, produced & launched an in-person pilot of mental health community events, the Big Pineapple NYC, offering peer-led mental health journey support, starting with survivors of Complex PTSD, thru community, creative expression, & mutual support. 🍍 Show less



Paperspace

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Software Engineer & Technical PM 🍍

  • Nov 2018 - Oct 2020

  Recruited at the Series A fundraise to build an end-to-end AI platform from idea to product, Jared joined Paperspace to democratize the development of Artificial Intelligence by helping build the Gradient MLOps platform as a senior software engineer. In his time there, he worked as a senior product engineer, quasi-product manager, team lead, and many-hats-wearer focused on realizing & delivering Gradient for data scientists & ML engineering teams to train, deploy, and collaborate on AI models on any target cloud or networked compute. Jared worked across the full Gradient product experience, from the Console web app, to the API, to DevOps infrastructure, delivering Gradient through multiple iterations, including as a managed service on Paperspace Cloud and as a Terraform-installable Kubernetes app. He PM'ed Gradient's first release and also released Gradient Community Notebooks, Paperspace's free product offering enabling anyone in the world to train and develop ML models using containerized Jupyter Notebooks. He debuted this on stage during his speech at AI DevWorld 2019. He also started & led Paperspace's DEI initiative and ran the high school intern program. The technologies & tools Jared used to help build Gradient and Paperspace Cloud as an engineer, to spearhead engineering process and teams, to manage projects and deliver products, and to engage users and improve customer experience are: INFRASTRUCTURE: Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Terraform, Prometheus, Grafana, Ansible, Postgres, CircleCI. LANGUAGES: HCL, YAML, Ansible Playbook, Javascript & Typescript, Go, Python. APPLICATION: Express, Go, React, Redux, LESS. MACHINE LEARNING: Jupyter Notebooks, Gradient, Fast.ai. CLOUD: Paperpace Cloud, AWS (EB, S3, RDS, Parameter Store + Chamber), Cloudflare, GCP (GCS). MARKETING: Segment, Customer.io, Ghost. PRODUCT: Canny, VideoAsk, Metabase, SmartLook/FullStory, UserPilot, Amplitude, Zapier. DESIGN: Figma. PROJECT & TEAM: Jira, Parabol, GitHub, Slack, Zoom. Show less



InfluxData

• United States
• Software Development
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Software Engineer 🍍

  • Feb 2017 - Nov 2018

  Hired at the Series B raise and there till Series D, Jared co-engineered the open-source, enterprise web app, Chronograf, which became the built-in UI of InfluxDB 2.0 and beyond. Chronograf is the modern, beautiful, and powerful graphical user interface for the InfluxData Platform for time series data. It enables users to visualize, monitor, and manage global-scale systems by handling metrics, events, and logs in real-time. Built to integrate tightly with InfluxData's full product offering, Chronograf gives users a single pane of insight and management to accumulate, analyze, and act on critical infrastructure, deployments, systems, and business data captured from server farms, wind and solar energy farms, software systems, particle physics experiments, and more at nanosecond precision at global scale. Jared helped bring Chronograf from beta software with hundreds of users to a robust, secure, feature-rich, cutting-edge, enterprise-grade data visualization, alerting, and database management application with tens of thousands of users. He also helped grow the team, which doubled in his time there, and mentor new hires. Among his many engineering contributions to this open-source project, Jared spearheaded and delivered on a months-long project to endow Chronograf with role-based access control, users, teams, private instances, and other security features focused on the application's client and server. He worked on the Chronograf server in Go (backed by BoltDB and Protocol Buffers), and on the client in TypeScript & JavaScript using React, Redux, Enzyme, and Jest. In particular, in Go he designed and built REST APIs using the OpenAPI and JSON Schema specifications; and he helped write the large SPA client codebase in JavaScript and convert it to TypeScript. While there, Jared began learning Kubernetes, microservices architecture, Docker, and gRPC. Try the app: https://chronograf.influxdata.com See the code: https://github.com/influxdata/chronograf Show less



Tagasauris, Inc.

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• 🍍 Software Engineer

  • Jan 2016 - Oct 2016

  At Tagasauris during seed stage, Jared engineered data pipelines, application prototypes, and internal tools in service of creating novel end-user video experiences – like video segment discovery, automated video editing, and hypervideo – powered by Machine Learning applied to video & photo. Technologies used were primarily React/Redux, Node/Express, React Native, Firebase, and AWS Mechanical Turk. On the application side, he built a video discovery web app (“Clippy”) – in React/Redux on the client-side and in Express/Node on the server-side – that queried ML-predicted, parsed video fragments and created a custom video player that allowed users to navigate a video timeline by selecting those fragments. For the Clippy backend, he engineered multiple data pipeline tools in Node to capture user-generated annotation data collected via Amazon Mechanical Turk on thousands of automotive images and to make it available for machine learning. He developed these tools in Node, Firebase, and AWS to manage and modify the AMT jobs, and then process and store task (HIT) data. These included: a SPA-thwarting image scraper for custom targets, and Microsoft and Google Images, using PhantomJS and PhridgeJS; an image stream processor to multiplex images for resizing and to upload to AWS; a datastore for metadata and annotations in Firebase; and a Node tool to ETL the data as a CSV for machine learning and business intelligence. For Amazon Mechanical Turk, he led development of a service-oriented architecture message queue to automate image-scraping and task-generation. For the task UI, he coded and deployed two views to allow users to collect image verification and bounding box annotations via AMT. He also developed an analytics page for AMT tasks to see live metadata & to average bounding boxes across annotations. He developed multiple product demos using other technologies as well, including a React Native app to play web video and a FramerJS Tinder-for-video prototype. Show less



Cecelia Webber Art

• United States
• Artists and Writers

• Founder, Business Manager, Talent Manager 🍍

  • Nov 2009 - Dec 2015

  As cofounder of Cecelia Webber Art, Jared led and managed production, publication, licensing, and sales of the breathtaking, breakthrough "Human Nature" series of fine art by now-internationally recognized artist, Cecelia Webber. The Human Nature series went viral worldwide after Jared recognized the talent and championed it, put it online, and handled the flurry of inquiries. Jared cultivated and maintained relationships with hundreds of international clients, publishers, producers, and vendors, including to sell through Barneys New York, publish in the Huffington Post, advertise for Harrison and Star, produce through the acclaimed PhotoSynthèse in Montréal, and exhibit at the Museo Civico (Natural History Museum) of Verona, Italy. Show less



Life's Waltz Productions

• Founder, Documentary Film Director, Producer, Editor, Entrepreneur 🍍

  • Aug 2008 - Nov 2014

  Jared directed, co-produced, co-shot, edited, and distributed the 68-min documentary film and crowd-pleaser, The Mayor. Crafted from 200+ hours of footage, The Mayor reveals a slice of life and character study of a handful of 90-year-olds living life to the fullest in a retirement community in Texas, from new romance, longstanding relationships and loss, to everyday acts of community and humanity. He also created a series of short films called Old Stories to build out the film world and promote the film. The Mayor played 9 film festivals internationally, including the Tel Aviv International Documentary Film Festival (DocAviv), Documentary Edge, and the 25th annual Dallas VideoFest, where The Mayor had its hometown debut at the Dallas Museum of Art. The documentary was distinguished as the official film selection of the Gerontological Society of America's annual Scientific Meeting. The film was licensed for broadcast on TV in Israel and New Zealand and distributed online on iTunes and Amazon. On the business side, Jared founded and ran Life's Waltz Productions LLC to produce and sell the film. He managed the marketing funnel and sales pipeline via Zoho CRM, onboarded 2 SDRs to help with sales, and licensed the film for screening exhibitions at retirement communities, religious communities, regional film series, and universities across the country. In producing the film, Jared negotiated an agreement with the USA's largest Senior Services Provider to film the documentary at one of their communities in Texas. As a director and documentarian, Jared created and held space for vulnerability and led 100+ hours of personal interviews with over 30 seniors aged 60-105. As marketer and distributor, he gave talks, paneled, performed Q&As, and exhibited the film at festivals, homes, community centers, universities, and conferences around the world. Show less



Self-Employed

• Real Estate
• 1 - 100 Employee

• 🍍 Film & Theater Director, Producer, Dramaturge

  • Sep 2008 - Jun 2014

  THEATER WORK Jared directed & developed one-person autobiographical stage-plays (60-90 min) that he considers documentaries on stage, working closely with artists to write and express dramatic works of art as stageplays, crafted from the fabric of their life stories and experiences. • Director, dramaturge, & development coach – DOODU BOY (2012-2014), the search for love from cess pool to sushiland; played successfully Off-Broadway at the SoHo Playhouse in NYC and at the Santa Monica Playhouse in LA – http://dooduboy.com • Director, dramaturge, & development coach – WRESTLES WITH MACHISTA (2011), a young boy struggles to become a man beneath the pressure of his looming family legacy • Dramaturge & development coach – IN MY MOTHER'S ARMS (2011), unpublished DOCUMENTARY FILM WORK Jared directed, produced, and edited multiple feature-length and short documentary films. • Director, producer, editor – WHAT LOVE IS (2013-2014, unfinished), an intimate exploration of romantic love between a late-20s couple • Director, producer, editor – THE MAYOR (2008-2012), a 68-min feature festival film about a handful of seniors living life to the fullest in a retirement community in Texas – http://themayormovie.com • Director, producer, editor – OLD STORIES (2008-2012), dozens of 1-3 minute short documentary vignettes sharing the personality, charm, humor, and humanity of a number of ~90-year-olds in Texas – https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8F094B9A5C446D9A • Co-director, producer, editor – LIFE'S WALTZ (2008), a 16-min exploration of life, loss, and love in old age – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgGeImyDE30&t=98s COMMERCIAL FILM WORK • Co-director, producer, editor – HEARTSYNC (2013) – http://www.biofluent.com/heartsync/ • Director, producer, editor – DO YOU BELIEVE IN A SECULAR AMERICA? (2012) – winner, Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science's national social media contest – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyA79ZNCEDw Show less



Fusion Academy

• India
• Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• 🍍 Teacher 🍍

  • Aug 2010 - Feb 2011

  Taught & mentored middle and high school students "1-to-1" with a range of special needs in French, Spanish, Japanese, English, Language Arts, Filmmaking, Photography, and Life Skills. Taught & mentored middle and high school students "1-to-1" with a range of special needs in French, Spanish, Japanese, English, Language Arts, Filmmaking, Photography, and Life Skills.